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Hard-to-make designs
Part count, tolerances and assembly drive avoidable cost.
Analytics that align design choices with the cheapest, most reliable way to actually make them.
A design that’s elegant on paper can be expensive and error-prone to build. We analyse designs against manufacturing reality — process capability, part count, tolerances, assembly — to cut manufacturing cost and quality risk before production.
Designs that fight the process cost more and fail more.
Part count, tolerances and assembly drive avoidable cost.
Design choices create defects the factory can’t fix.
Designs don’t match the capability of the process that makes them.
Manufacturability, quantified.
Designs scored against process capability and assembly.
Opportunities to simplify parts and relax over-tight tolerances.
Design changes that cut defect risk at source.
Cheaper, more reliable to build.
Designs scored for cost and quality risk.
Part-count and tolerance savings identified.
Specific design changes with quantified benefit.
Bring a real decision or dataset — we’ll show you how KEPLER would approach it, with no obligation.
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The industries this work serves.
R&D, safety and commercial analytics.
Operational and patient-flow analytics.
Project controls, cost and schedule analytics.
Demand, pricing and customer analytics.
Quality, throughput and maintenance analytics.
From design to a build-ready product.
Designs are scored against process capability.
Cost and quality risks are surfaced.
Specific simplifications are proposed.
Each change is sized for cost and quality.
Changes feed back into the design.
Manufacturing cost and defect risk cut before production.
The category, capabilities and expertise this connects to.
Common problems in this area, how KEPLER solves them, and the likely outcome.
10–20% process cost out
View details →A part passes design review but fights the process: extra operations, tight tolerances that scrap yield, features that need special tooling. The cost hides in the shop, not the drawing.
Parts redesigned to fit the process, taking cost and scrap out without touching what the part does.
2–4 pts yield gained
View details →Recurring scrap gets managed on the line when its root cause is a design that's hard to make repeatably. The cost recurs every shift.
Chronic scrap designed out at source, lifting yield instead of managing loss shift after shift.
~15% assembly time cut
View details →Part counts, fastener variety and awkward access inflate assembly labour on every unit, but the cost is invisible on the drawing.
Lower assembly labour on every unit built, from a design that's quicker to put together.
No use cases match this filter yet — but the problem is almost certainly one we can help with.
Ask us about your problem →Share a design and we’ll show you the manufacturability savings.
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